EMMELI PERSON

Emmeli Person's research based practice is often formulated in sculpturally dense installations. Leaking into social formats, projects often act in the slippage between a phenomenological entanglement with material and the creation of scientific fictions that help narrate new or existing semiotic structures. Co-running the learning program at Index, and currently researching how children use the concept of reality, Emmeli is deeply engaged in how artistic practices can intervene and re-formulate how we structure learning situations.

HELIO, 2018

Helio is an artistic research project by Emmeli Person. Spinning around the axis of a fictional neurological disorder Heliosynchesiy, the project creates theoretical and sculptural collaborations, exploring the hypothetical world a patient with Heliosynchesiy. Previously shown at UiT Arctic University in Tromsø, Department for culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, R1 reactor at Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. From the 12th of October to the 12 of November, Helio will be shown at Peryton Gallery in Copenhagen with a special event on the first evening of the polarnight, 26th of October.

DESCRIPTIONS:

1. Heliosynchesiy (2018, film, 10’00’’, color, stereo).

A fictional paper abstracts for the study of Heliosynchesiy by psychologist Adam Ringstedt and a narrative text written from the position of a fictional patient at Stockholm University are sliding vertically across the screen on a yellow background. Random images portraying yellow and round objects, shapes or situations appear occasionally on the background. The video is mostly silent, some background noise can be heard in some parts of the video: birds singing, people talking and the wind palying with the microphone.

2. Symptoms (2018, film, 5’33’’, color, stereo).

The film consists of footage of round objects, shapes and formations. These are combined with video material portraying medical operations and outer space. The soundscape consists of soothing music and heartbeat sounds.

3. SU (Stockholm University) (2018, film, 19’38’’, color, stereo).

The film portrays round objects and shapes at the Stockholm university building: benches, lamps, tables and architecture in general. The footage is filmed with rotating movement and the camera is often circulating the object. The soundscape consists of strong and wavy music combined with background noise from the filming situations.